Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications By Matt Monday at 02:04 PM
John McKee Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 WHY are we getting this flag on our forum without our permission. Along with the words fight war......Not everyone wants involved with this political nonsense
Ramsesx Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 5 minutes ago, John McKee said: WHY are we getting this flag on our forum without our permission Maybe from one of your application or plugin. I am sure IPS is not doing those things. Or you got hacked?
Marc Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 30 minutes ago, John McKee said: WHY are we getting this flag on our forum without our permission. Along with the words fight war......Not everyone wants involved with this political nonsense I would need more information on what you are seeing there. I do however need to make it very clear, this is not something that has been done by IPS or by your invision product.
Marc Posted March 4, 2022 Posted March 4, 2022 Just to let you know, I have taken a look on your site, and Im not actually seeing where it is you see this added either
John McKee Posted March 5, 2022 Author Posted March 5, 2022 This randomly appears beneath member posts like a message, replacing member signature.....
Jim M Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 28 minutes ago, John McKee said: Does it go under all members or just one? If just one (or few), the user likely added it to their signature.
John McKee Posted March 5, 2022 Author Posted March 5, 2022 20 minutes ago, Jim M said: Does it go under all members or just one? If just one (or few), the user likely added it to their signature. Random , could be a dozen a day or none AND NO, NO MEMBERS would "likely" add it to their signature, why would they? It looks more like an issue from Invision 24 minutes ago, Muddy Boots said: Some sort of advertising ? App or something ? Where would it come from though? Our forum / site is supposed to be secure.......any ideas would be helpful. Unfortunately the Invision support is not too hot.
Jim M Posted March 6, 2022 Posted March 6, 2022 21 minutes ago, John McKee said: It looks more like an issue from Invision I’m sorry you’re having an issue but this is not something we added to our software or impose on our clients. We would not do anything like that. 25 minutes ago, John McKee said: Where would it come from though? I would suggest disabling/removing all customizations (themes, applications, plugins, advertisements, any custom JavaScript, etc…) to rule out them out. If it still remains, please supply us a URL to where you are currently seeing this.
John McKee Posted March 6, 2022 Author Posted March 6, 2022 31 minutes ago, Jim M said: I’m sorry you’re having an issue but this is not something we added to our software or impose on our clients. We would not do anything like that. I would suggest disabling/removing all customizations (themes, applications, plugins, advertisements, any custom JavaScript, etc…) to rule out them out. If it still remains, please supply us a URL to where you are currently seeing this. https://www.vanguardbears.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/67246-sheep-fans/ second post down
Randy Calvert Posted March 6, 2022 Posted March 6, 2022 It looks like that is the signature of the user “digsey”. It does look like that’s from the software but instead posted by your user.
IveLeft... Posted March 6, 2022 Posted March 6, 2022 7 hours ago, John McKee said: Where would it come from though? Our forum / site is supposed to be secure.......any ideas would be helpful. Unfortunately the Invision support is not too hot.
Solution Jim M Posted March 6, 2022 Solution Posted March 6, 2022 That user has an image in their signature which is coming from a third party image hosting service. Either the image itself is what you're seeing there or the third party image hosting service is imposing this. Either way, I'm afraid, this is not coming from the software and something caused by the user having this as their signature. At the time of looking at this the image was dead so I cannot confirm. You would need to either remove this from their signature in the ACP or ask the user to do so if it is against the terms of your community. Overall, this is a moderation issue rather than a security issue or bug in the software itself.
Adriano Faria Posted March 6, 2022 Posted March 6, 2022 2 minutes ago, Jim M said: That user has an image in their signature which is coming from a third party image hosting service. @John McKee, take a look if you want to have a bit more control over user signatures: IveLeft... 1
IveLeft... Posted March 6, 2022 Posted March 6, 2022 13 minutes ago, Adriano Faria said: take a look if you want to have a bit more control over user signatures: User sigs for links and anything else are a royal PITA with IPS - so use a plugin like this as in the vanilla software everything goes and you cannot moderate it as such Adriano Faria 1
Marc Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 13 hours ago, Muddy Boots said: User sigs for links and anything else are a royal PITA with IPS - so use a plugin like this as in the vanilla software everything goes and you cannot moderate it as such Please feel free to post within our suggestions area if you wish to see additional features added to our core platform
John McKee Posted March 8, 2022 Author Posted March 8, 2022 On 3/6/2022 at 1:06 AM, Randy Calvert said: It looks like that is the signature of the user “digsey”. It does look like that’s from the software but instead posted by your user. NOT POSTED BY THE USER
Randy Calvert Posted March 8, 2022 Posted March 8, 2022 7 minutes ago, John McKee said: NOT POSTED BY THE USER As Jim noted above... it's in the user's signature. Either the remote image hosting service the user used is serving that image or something else. It's not the IPB software. So unfortunately there is not much that can be done from the software perspective. I would suggest editing the signature and removing the remotely called image. Good luck!
Ramsesx Posted March 8, 2022 Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) 48 minutes ago, John McKee said: NOT POSTED BY THE USER If posted or not posted by your user, this image is definitely in his signature as you can see in the image posted by Jim above. He has taken this screenshot from the signature of your user on your site. So just remove it by your self in the acp or ask the user to remove it. Problem solved. If you still don't believe it just add the image URL into the editor here and you get this: Edited March 8, 2022 by Ramsesx
TDBF Posted March 8, 2022 Posted March 8, 2022 4 hours ago, John McKee said: NOT POSTED BY THE USER That is an image in the user signature and very much added by the user. You can disable signatures via the ACP. Nothing to do with Invision.
Marc Posted March 8, 2022 Posted March 8, 2022 8 hours ago, John McKee said: NOT POSTED BY THE USER This is incorrect. The link itself was posted by the user. What has not happened is that the user has likely not intentionally posted a ukraine image. It is a link to an image on an external site, which means that external site has control over what image it is.
Nathan Explosion Posted March 8, 2022 Posted March 8, 2022 On 3/6/2022 at 8:57 PM, Muddy Boots said: everything goes and you cannot moderate it as such There are per-group settings available which alleviate some of that 'everything goes' The Old Man and Marc 1 1
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